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cross-eye

(Encyclopedia) cross-eye: see strabismus.

Iron Cross

(Encyclopedia) Iron Cross: see decorations, civil and military.

False Cross

(Encyclopedia) False Cross, in astronomy: see Carina.

Mortimer's Cross

(Encyclopedia) Mortimer's Cross, battlefield, Herefordshire, W England, near Leominster. It was the scene of a battle (Feb. 2, 1461) in the Wars of the Roses (see Roses, Wars of the), which ended…

barn

(Encyclopedia) barn, abbr. b, in physics, unit of nuclear cross section, i.e., the effective target presented by a nucleus for collisions leading to nuclear reactions; it is equal to 10−24 square…

Dunant, Jean Henri

(Encyclopedia) Dunant, Jean HenriDunant, Jean HenrizhäN äNrēˈ dünäNˈ [key], 1828–1910, Swiss philanthropist and founder of the International Red Cross, b. Geneva. In 1862 appeared his Un souvenir de…

crucifix

(Encyclopedia) crucifix: see cross.